Types of Cancer
If you need radiation therapy, it’s important to ensure the radiation reaches the right place, while avoiding vital organs such as the heart. To do this, a variety of methods are used to ensure you are in the right place before and during treatment.
AlignRT® is a new technology which ensures that you are positioned correctly before and during treatment. By tracking your skin surface in real time using 3D camera technology, AlignRT® helps make sure that you are in the intended position, with high accuracy, and often with fewer bothersome devices, providing both comfort and safety. If you move even a millimeter, radiation can be automatically shut off until you are back in the correct position. AlignRT® can be used across all cancer sites and can eliminate the need for tattoos or skin marks for certain patients.
AlignRT® is safe and can be used on cancer treatment sites from head to toe. Please find an overview of the following conditions: breast, brain, lung, liver, prostate, sarcoma, head and neck and cancer in children below.
Left-Breast
A study suggests that AlignRT® + Deep Inspiration Breath Hold (DIBH) can prevent abnormalities in blood flow to the heart resulting from left-breast radiation therapy.1
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Brain
AlignRT® in stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) has shown clinically equivalent results, with better patient comfort and fast treatment times, compared with other commonly-used, more invasive technologies.2,3
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Lung and Liver
AlignRT® has been shown to help treat stereotactic body radiation therapy patients with better than patients with accurate initial setup and monitoring during treatment and relatively little immobilization which leads to enhanced comfort.4
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Prostate
AlignRT® can be used with both of these external beam radiation therapy approaches to help more accurately position you for treatment, as well as ensure your position does not change during beam delivery.
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Sarcomas
AlignRT® offers a more comfortable radiation treatment while making sure that the treatment is as accurate as treatments with a full-face mask.5
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Head and Neck
AlignRT® offers a more comfortable radiation treatment while making sure that the treatment is as accurate as treatments with a full-face mask.
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Pediatric
AlignRT® offers many benefits to pediatric patients, including easier set up, avoiding tattoos, and may reduce the need for general anesthesia in children.
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